Oncology & Cancer
Shortage of vital children's cancer drug stirs fear and outrage
A critical shortage of a chemotherapy used to treat most childhood cancers has galvanized oncologists and parents of sick children.
Oct 18, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
A partnership to tackle childhood cancers in developing countries
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are joining forces to combat childhood cancers in developing countries, where children are four times more likely to die of the disease ...
Oct 18, 2019
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Medical research
Meet BORIS: Possible new culprit in drug-resistant cancer
Like a Russian bot corrupting U.S. elections, or a new prime minister wreaking havoc in the U.K., a protein named BORIS is showing itself to be a malevolent player in some childhood cancers. New research fingers BORIS as ...
Sep 25, 2019
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Medical research
In high-risk neuroblastoma, two stem cell transplants may be better than one
Since the early 1990s, chemotherapy followed by an autologous stem cell transplant has been the standard of care for high-risk neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that starts in nerve cells outside the brain, especially in ...
Sep 17, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Understanding risks for childhood cancer survivors
Survivors of childhood cancer have every reason to celebrate after experiencing harrowing diagnoses and difficult treatments during their most formative years.
Sep 13, 2019
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Cardiology
Childhood cancer survivors at elevated risk of heart disease
Survivors of childhood cancer have a higher risk of developing a range of heart disease due to cancer therapy, according to new research published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.
Aug 26, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Bone health management key in childhood cancer survivors
(HealthDay)—As part of a literature review, published in the June issue of the Annals of Oncology, recommendations are presented for the management of bone health in survivors of childhood cancer.
Aug 6, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Globally, more than 11 million years of healthy life lost due to childhood cancer in 2017
While the number of new cancer cases in children and adolescents (aged 0-19 years) is relatively low at around 416,500 globally in 2017, treatment-related ill-health and disability and fatal cancer are estimated to cause ...
Jul 30, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Inherited BRCA2 mutations linked to increased risk of childhood lymphoma
A report from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital links inherited mutations in the BRCA2 gene with an increased risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma in children and adolescents. The work appears as an advance online ...
Jul 25, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Maternal obesity linked to childhood cancer
A new study from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center found that children born to obese mothers were more likely to develop cancer in early childhood.
Jul 10, 2019
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